Twitter Reacts To Trump's Tax Returns

How The Internet Reacted To The Release Of Trump's Tax Returns

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017.

On Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow dropped a bombshell on her Twitter account: She had obtained a copy of President Trump's tax returns and would be talking about them at 9 p.m. ET during TheRachel Maddow Show.

So naturally, when Maddow announced her program had obtained a copy of Trump's tax returns Twitter users went bonkers. Who cares if they were from 2005! Was this real? After all the months pushing for the Trump campaign and the Trump administration to release POTUS 45's tax returns, was this finally happening?

The answer is yes. There wasn't much there. But in the end, Maddow's effort proved something important: Nothing is really stopping the Trump administration from releasing the president's tax returns. Or even journalists from digging further. Now the question is, will they?

This is a really, really good pitch for sending journalists more of Donald Trump's tax returns. She is doing a service, here.